Brian Kemp

Brian Kemp (2 November 1963-) was Governor of Georgia (R) from 14 January 2019, succeeding Nathan Deal. He was infamous for his abuse of power while serving as Secretary of State of Georgia from 2010 to 2018, utilizing voter suppression to wint he gubernatorial election and to continue Georgia's status as a strongly Republican state.

Biography
Brian Kemp was born in Athens, Georgia in 1963, and he worked as a home builder and developer before serving in the State Senate from 2003 to 2007. In 2010, Governor Sonny Perdue appointed Kemp to succeed Karen Handel as Secretary of State of Georgia after Handel stepped down to run for governor. Kemp abused his position of power while in office: he was the only state official to refuse Homeland Security's assistance in guarding against Russian interference during the 2016 presidential election, cancelled 1.4 million voter registrations from 2012 to 2018, held up more than 53,000 registrations (70% of them being from African-Americans during his run for Governor in 2018, and purged 534,000 voters for allegedly moving out of the state (although 334,134 still lived in the state). His actions led to a democratic backsliding in Georgia, and he won the gubernatorial election with 50.2% of the vote against Stacey Abrams' 48.8%; the election was marred by reports of Kemp's voter suppression.